
Vasily Piskarev, Chairman of the Russian State Duma Commission to Investigate Foreign Interference in Russia's Internal Affairs. Archival photoMOSCOW, May 4. Attempts by the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to obtain data from Russian citizens via the Internet fall under criminal qualification and are an attempt to recruit, espionage and incitement to treason, the chairman of the State Duma commission on investigation believes Vasily Piskarev of the facts of interference of foreign states in the internal affairs of Russia Vasily Piskarev. Earlier, the Washington Post, citing officials, wrote that the CIA allegedly published instructions in Russian on social networks, following which you can secretly contact US intelligence and transfer secret information about the Russian Federation to it. According to the publication, the CIA gave detailed instructions on how informants can ensure the security of data transmission and «not be caught.» CIA to the Russians with clumsy work»We see how the US government structures (last week the State Department distributed programs for the mass distribution of fakes against the Russians) stepped up attempts to establish multi-vector direct contacts with our citizens. In addition to the already traditional interference in internal affairs, such interaction in general falls under the criminal qualification — this is an open attempt at recruitment, espionage and incitement to treason,» Piskarev was quoted on the commission's Telegram channel. legal assessment.

